The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-08-22
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

THE newest freak of fashion is to have the
dress, hat, gloves, boots and stockings OF the
| same color as the lady's hair.
| THERE were 1853 photographers in the United
! States in 1870, and $3.50 in 1880. There are now
! about II. 900 persons engaged in the photograph
! ing business in this country.
| IT is said to cost about $1,000 for family to
| spend the season at Newport 900 for cot
tage ST., 800 for horses, 81 800 for servants and
marketing, and $4,000 for clothes.
| AN ANN ARBoR MAN has cut off his moustache,
because he thought it hoodooed the Detroit base
| bali team He didn't care so much about the
team but he did want to win those little bets
BARNEGAr POINT. N. j.. is being washed away
by the sea so rapidly that the lighthouse is in
| danger and will have to be removed. During
the last ten weeks the sea has cut in over 600
| feet.
| AT Hagerstown. Md, on Wednesday, couple
are reported to have been married in one min
utes time. They arrived on the 815 train, and
were united by clergyman in waiting VINO LETT
on the SIG train to continue trip ne was
making.
| BosroN seems to be the paradise for female
stock gamblers At one of the bucket shops
patronized by the fair sex, over hundred ladies
can be seen daily gesticulating wildly. with
cheer, sob or laugh, as the case may be, and oc-
casionally also fanting-the last resort OF lovely
woman.
THE Winnemucca New Silver State says:
"a band of Shoshones arrived here few days
ago with several hundred dollars for the pur
pose of engaging in gambling bout with the
Piutes. Usually the Shoshones take away more
| money than they bring with them, but this time
| the rule was reversed and they lost all their
coin and blankets"
| AquEER MUSEUM the Queens Jubilee presents
| form in the Throne Room at Windsor; a car
ria on from uNT Of plipola06. n N
| olive-woOd cross from the British residents of
| Jerusalem; boots, shoes and slippers from the
| people of Stafford; felt hats, Turkish bath
| towels, Irvine, nope, collars and cuffs calicoes
| tobacco, marmalade' and an almost infinite
variety of the products of the kingdom.
| A LONDON DRUGGIST, who was putting up
prescription lately, by the aid of his assistant
was handed by the latter prussc acid for some
| simple drug. The patient died two hours after
| taking some of the compound. report of the
| outcome is in the London Times of Aug. 3: The
| jury returned verdict of death by msadven
| ture, but strongly censured the druggist and
| his assistant, who were admonished by the
| Coroner"
| THE oldest settlers of Grangeville, I. T., were
| recently surprised by the temperance of big
Mary" an Indian squaw, who, in the White
| Bird fight ten years ago. bore an active part:
| She was very diligent in cutting the threats of
wounded soldiers who fell in that action. She
| accompanied the hostiles all throughout the
| war, and was sent to Indian Territory with the
| other Indians, but finally returned with Joseph's
! band to the Colville reservation.
MAD DOG attacked Mrs. Henry BiekIe near
| Louisville, and William Eichen a young newly
landed German employed by Biekle, went to
| her rescue and strangled the brute but not be-
| fore his hands and arms had been badly bitten.
| AS soon as Biekle learned that the dog was mad,
| and that Eichen might have the hydrophobia,
| he promptly discharged the young man who
| had saved his wife's life, and the poor fellow,
| without money or friends, was admitted to the
hospital.
| AN Ogdensburg newspaper says that some of
the citizens of the Fourth ward of that town
| have for some time been annoyed by their cows
| coming home at night without the usual amount
| of milk They watched their cows in hopes of
discovering the offender, and they were success
full, for they saw strange dog approach one OF
the COWS and rub up against her legs The COW v
| launches and sucked her dry. He was as fat as
a seal from the milk he had been taking
IT IS TOLD of Charles Stuart Calverley who
| wrote ely Leaves" that when student at
Cambridge he was a frequent visitor at the
| deans lodge. One evening when he was there
| the children'S bedtime came, and they said
| Good night" One little miss, about years of
age, kissed her father and mother, and was
| leaving the room, when her mother said: why!
| my dear, are you not going to Kiss Mr. Calver-
| iey?' mo, mamma, Mr. Calverley doesn't
want to kiss me-" How do you know he
doesnt?'' Because, mamma, whenever he
|
he always kisses hurse, but he never kisses me"
ONE of the most prodigious engineering prof
ects now on the taps is that for tunneling the
Rocky Mountains under Trays Peak, which
rises no less than IA All feet above the level of
the sea- It is stated that at AL feet below the
peak, by tunnelling from east to west for q, 900
| feet, direct communication could be opened be-
| tween the valleys on the Atlantic slope and
those on the Pacific side. This would shorten
| the distance between Denver, in Colorado, and
1 r u. L.
| distance between the Missouri river, say at St.
l. Louis, and San Francisco nearly 300 miles, and
| there would be little more required in the way
| of ascending or descending or tunnelling noun
| tains. Part of the work has already been ac-
| complished.
| ERNEST LEGoUvE, the author of "Adrienne
Lecouvreur," is STILL at the age of so, one of the
best readers and cauSeurs of Paris. Like Auber,
he has scarcely ever left the French capital, and
he boasts of possessing, in addition to France
| and Paris, q third fatherland"-his house. He
| still inhabts the stone house in which he was
bora, and his study is the one in which his father
| worked The elder Legouye who wrote some
now forgotten dramas, had also been member
| of the French Academy; he died when Ernest
| was years old and the child was present when
his fathers successor in the academy, Alexander
| Duval, delivered his eulogy Sixteen years later
| Ernest Legouve again witnessed in the same
| seat, meeting of the academy, this time as the
successful competitor for prize for the best
poem on The Invention of the Art of Print
ing"
THE father of Volapuk, or its inventor as
he calls himself" says writer in the Leipsc
| Wtstritc Zeitnng, sis the former Catholic
priest Johann Martin Schleyer, born July IS,
| 1881, at Oberlunda in the Grand Duchy of Ba-
den, man of fiery intellect, emotional temper
| ament and childlike heart. Eight years ago,
while spending sleepless night thinking very
intently upon the misery and hard lot of man
| kind he gradually evolved his system of the
world language Volapuk ('vol' being derived
from the English World and 'pul1' from spedl),
which exists to this very day for reforming
| criticasterS have not succeeded in inducing him
to change his grammar in any respect. 1t is
true, however, that he has quietly and gradually
| changed some of the verbal forms and incorpo-
| rated them, without specially abiding to them,
in the new edition of his vocabulary"
A GERMAN LADY, who recently was admitted
into the presence of the Khediye's wife, de-
scribes her in the Vienna Neue Freie Presse as
follows: "She is still young, at most "a to 26
years old, and has an extremely charming face.
Her whole appearance would be bewitching
were she not an Oriental and, therefore young
as she is already too stout to be perfectly beau
| tiful according to European notions. She has
large dark eyes, with long heavy eyelashes a
| dazzling compleXion-to which art has con-
tributed nothing-and the loveliest little mouth
| and teeth Her neck and arms as well as her
| small fat hands, glittered with diamonds and
her dark, fashionably arranged hair was en-
| pirplad with he md